Panasonic DC-GH5S: Moving Filmmaking Forward

Take that stepPanasonic are moving filmmaking forward, especially for those who use DSLR or DLSM cameras on their projects. Before, recording was limited and users had to search the internet for workarounds, but no longer. The Panasonic DC-GH5S brings unlimited recording in C4K/4K 60p/50p, letting you capture the footage you want, without having to worry about timers or limits.

Venus Engine and Advanced Sensors

Record for LongerPanasonic are moving filmmaking forward, especially for those who use DSLR or DLSM cameras on their projects. Before, recording was limited and users had to search the internet for workarounds, but no longer. The Panasonic DC-GH5S brings unlimited recording in C4K/4K 60p/50p, letting you capture the footage you want, without having to worry about timers or limits.

Dual Native ISOThis leap is coupled with Panasonic’s new advanced image sensor, which runs on the latest Venus Engine. Featuring Dual Native ISO, this advancement allows you to capture at a high sensitivity while keeping noise levels low, whereas with older cameras, the higher the sensitivity on a single ISO, the louder the noise in the image was. Now, low-light situations can still produce fantastic video or pictures, without the need to go in and fix in post.

Never Stop Recording

Cinema Quality 4K, One Step Above
Footage is captured at a wonderful 4K and new to the GH5S, Cinema 4K, an alternative that records at a pure 24 frames-per-second, 19:10 aspect ratio, giving you the ultimate look and feel of video that is destined for the cinema. The difference between the GH5S and other DSLR or DLSM cameras, is that at any resolution, you can record indefinitely, as long as the battery and storage are available.

GH5S Features

So many options

The 8-bit horror of banding when shooting certain things, like sunsets, is no more. The Panasonic GH5S records at a 4:2:2 10-bit rate, which is all internal. Sunsets, the sky or anything that would cause banding on 8-bit can be captured with all their brilliant subtleties and the details rendered within the camera itself. This allows for guerrilla style filmmaking without limits.

SD, TC, LINE

As it’s recording to the SD cards inside, the GH5S can be output to an HDMI enabled monitor or screen with its full sized HDMI port, eliminating the need to locate a mini-HDMI or other cable that no one has. A TC IN/OUT Terminal lets you sync with an external device, allowing for non-linear timeline editing of footage captured on multiple cameras. There’s also a LINE Input, letting you input sounds from an external audio device.

4:2:2 10-bit

4:2:2 10-bit lets you get accurate colours and a grading fidelity that you’ve never seen before in a camera like this. To help with filming, the GH5S comes with a pre-installed V-LogL Video Recording Function to help achieve a specific look and a Hybrid Log Gamma for 4K HDR Video to reproduce bright and dark parts of an image, replicating the human eye look.

Fast Readout Speeds

Panasonic’s LUMIX GH5S sensor can take on multiple aspect ratios, so when you go to capture a scene, whether it’s in photo mode or video, the focal length doesn’t change in between aspect ratios. The GH5S features fast readout speeds, supressing shutter distortion by 1.3x and all this can be achieved even when a larger sensor is attached to the camera.

Slow Motion

Slow Mo, So Cool

If the readout speeds are quick, then the 10x Slow Motion Video is the opposite. With a Variable Frame Rate, you can capture slow motion video at C4K/4K at 60FPS or in FHD at 240FPS. This lets you grab all the action you want and in a granular detail that other cameras just can’t hope to accomplish.